The unparalleled benefits of a #cloudnative warehouse management system(WMS): Never need to upgrade again. The WMS will upgrade itself. Robust, stable, and reliable. The WMS is proven and used by many users. Lower cost of ownership. New features and functions are made available to you at no additional cost. Highly…

WMS Back to Basic, Part 10 — Replenishment tasks in a warehouse management system. — Replenishment is a process where stocks stored at non-pickface locations(also referred to as reserved locations or bulk locations) are sent to the pickface locations. A pickface(also referred to as a Forward Location) is a location set up for loose picking. …

WMS Part 9, Back to Basic — Stock take vs Cycle Count — Warehouses perform “Stock Take” when they want to count all their inventory stored in the warehouses and compare the physical count result with the records in the warehouse management system (WMS). Cycle count is to physical count specific products, batches, locations or stock conditions (for example high-value items). For example…

How will the world be without warehouse management systems? — Once, I came upon this phrase on Linkedin, ‘No Shipping, No Shopping’. The creator of this phrase is a maritime professional, merchant navy experienced in worldwide trades, transports and logistics services. It really got me to start thinking — if there wasn’t logistics(transportation) by land, sea, or air…how would goods…

A Warehouse Management System (WMS) is an execution focused software intended to keep track of inventory and optimise the warehouse operation processes, making the warehouse operations stress-free and effective. WMS is not only for noting inventory balance for each of the bin location in a warehouse, it is a lot…

When an order is picked, the picked items are usually placed temporarily at the staging area of a warehouse. With many picked orders lying at the staging area in a busy warehouse, it can be very overwhelming if it is not well managed. When a truck is assigned to pick…

Why do you need a pickface? — A “Pickface” (also referred to as a forward-picking location) is a location in a warehouse where loose pick activities are conducted. Loose-pick means picking quantity is less than one (1) pallet. These can be carton pick or inner pack pick or each pick. Pickfaces are usually located on the group…

Part 6 — Back to Basic. Picking and Packing Process in WMS. — Picking is about task execution. After running a wave in the WMS (Warehouse Management System), a list of tasks are generated in the system waiting to be carried out. When the warehouse operation decides to work on these pick tasks, the wave is then “released”. Whether the warehouse operation uses…

Part 5 — Back to Basic. Wave Planning In WMS is like playing Tower Defense games — If you play “Tower Defense” games, you understand that enemies attack you in groups by waves. But why? Why don’t the game designers make all the enemies attack you at once? Because that would take away the fun, the fun in strategizing, planning and executing. Likewise, in warehouse operation, there…